We are happy to report that Book 2 is here and fresh off the press! Read the great articles and student notes in this issue here.

by Ming Yan Paul Cheng The Chinese media plays an integral part of the Chinese judicial system. Some have argued that the media does not increase the transparency of the Chinese Judicial system and may actually undermine court autonomy. Others have argued that the media promotes public interest and plays a positive role in the [...]

by Kate DiGeronimo The 2008 Presidential Election utilized the breadth of the Internet in ways previously unseen. As a new public commons, the Internet was the medium through which many Americans gathered information in making decisions about who to vote for on Election Day. Politicians realized that the Internet was to have a significant role [...]

– Not a verbatim transcription — [7:53] Andrew Bridges: We hear a lot about the damages to content creators through flouting of IP rights, but these damages are not usually actually proven. To the extent that they have been proven, those damages should influence the debate, but it is often less than claimed. Lionel Bently: [...]

[Moderator: Gonzalo Ulloa y Suelves] [Speakers/Panelists: Prof. Johm M. Golden, Edward Nodder, Felix Rodiger, George Badenoch, Hon. Justice Floyd, Marleen van der Horst] – Not a verbatim transcription — [5:25] John Golden: Opening it up by surveying the current state of injunctive relief in US patent law. Problems with patent rights: Costs to eliminating the [...]

by Elysa Brooke Goldberg, Ph.D. Proteins are essential parts within every organism, engaging in every regulated process within our cells. Each protein has a highly specific function within the cell; as such, each protein is required to perform its intended job perfectly. When a protein fails at performing its function, the individual cell and the [...]

By: Emily Nash Despite their increasing popularity, I’ve never understood the allure of virtual worlds, but my interest in the phenomenon was recently piqued by conversation amongst friends who are hooked on Second Life, the popular virtual world formed by Philip Rosedale under the name Linden Lab in 1999. Second Life provides an online forum [...]

By Joe Reiss How many fellow law students have been in this situation: It’s finals week, and you are sitting in the library researching for a final paper that’s due in a couple of days. Suddenly, you lose your Internet connection. You try to re-connect, but the school’s wireless network is overcrowded with users. Instead, [...]

By Assaf Ben-Atar Last year, IPLJ Blogger Matthew Stark praised The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit’s decision in C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Advanced Media, L.P.,1 which held that the First Amendment trumped Major League Baseball Player’s right to publicity to license their statistics for use in online [...]

By Ursula Clarke In February 2008, the EU Commission proposed a directive to extend the copyright term for sound recordings from 50 to 95 years. The stated objective of this proposal was to “stop European performers from being the poor cousins of the music business.” (It should be noted that this branch of copyright concerns [...]